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of age in 1584. I however do not know when bis 

 predecessor may have died or resigned. 



On the whole I think that the First and Second 

 PaVts appeared before the year 1580; and as we 

 know how little scrupulous writers in those days 

 were about encroaching on one another in the time 

 between that and 1590, the year in which the Two 

 Gen/fe/nen o/'Fero?ia was probably written, someone 

 may have put forth a Third Part of the Champions 

 which Shakspeare may have read. Or, supposing 

 the agreement with the passage in Cyntbeline to 

 be a mere coincidence, the author may at the 

 playhouse have picked up those passages from the 

 Tivo Gentlemen and Romeo and Juliet, which, to 

 say the truth, have something of the look of jnir- 

 purei paiini in his generally uupoetic pages. Or, 

 finally, the Third Part may not have been 

 written till after 1623, when the Tivo Gentlemen 

 and Cymbeline were printed for the first time. I 

 must here observe that there is a copy of the 

 Champions in the Grenville library which contains 

 only the First and Second Parts, and in the title- 

 page of the latter we have the date 1680. It is 

 rather remarkable that it is printed in blackletter, 

 which I thought had gone out of use by that time. 

 On comparing it with the Dove's edition which I 

 had read, I find that in this last the language is 

 greatly altered, and never for the better. 



It remains, then, for the bibliographers — of 

 whom I am not one — to ascertain if any of the 

 separately printed Parts are in existence, and when 

 the Third was first printed with the others ; for it 

 must have been at that time that the concluding 

 paragraph of the Second Part was added. I feel 

 quite certain that Shakspeare was acquainted with 

 Johnson's works, for I think I could point out 

 parallel passages besides those noticed by Me. 

 CoixiER. ]\Ir. Halliweld, by the way, recom- 

 mends me " to forswear thin potations, and addict 

 myself to — Shakspeare." I have not a little to say 

 on that absorbing subject, and perhaps I may find 

 a vent for it ; for I set no value on knowledge 

 that is not communicated. What I have written 

 on Spenser will, I believe, appear ere long : at 

 present I am engaged in printing the edition of 

 Milton's Poems, which I announced some time ago. 



Thos. Keightley. 



»cijltrsi to iHinar ©uericji. 



Morganatic Marriages (P' S. ii. 72. 125.231.261.) 

 " Wliut constitutes a Morganatic Marriage?" In 

 reply to this Query, I send you the answer which 

 I have received from a gentleman at Vienna, whose 

 authority in all matters relating to genealogy and 

 family history is unquestionable : — 



"A jMorganatic marriaKe is a marriage between a 

 memtier of a reigning or of a mediatised family, and one 

 not of a reigning or mediatised family. The cliiUlren of 

 such a uiarriagf; arc legitimate, and may succeed to allo- 



dial possessions ; I)ut do not bear the faniily name, and. 

 are incapable of succeeding, or transmitting a right of suc- 

 cession, to the titles, sovereign privileges, and entailed 

 possessions of the family. 



" All the Houses which held directly and immediately 

 of the Holy Eoman Empire at its break up, and -n-hich 

 had then seat and voice among the Lords in the Diet, 

 are either still reigning or mediatised. They are all con- 

 sidered upon an equality as to blood ; and an Emperor of 

 Austria may choose an Empress from among the Ben- 

 tincks, Fuggers, Platens, Walmodens, Wurmbrands, &c., 

 if he please." 



Faknham. 

 "Lnmodicis hrevis est cstas,'' Sfc. (2""* S. vi. 109. 

 140.) — A version of the Knight of Kerry's epi- 

 taph, which appeared some time ago in a local 

 magazine, attracted my attention to this line as 

 being misrendered by taking the word " immo- 

 dicus" in a bad sense ; as though it meant that 

 "Evil livers were seldom long lived." After a 

 world of trouble and research among classic mo- 

 ralists, where I thought the line most likely to be 

 found, I lighted on it, where I least expected it, in 

 a lament of MartiaVs over a young freedman 

 named Glaucus, whose untimely death he bewails 

 in more than one epitaph. I subjoin the original 

 with my own attempted rendering; the former 

 will be found in Martial, Ejiigr., lib. vi. 29. : — 

 " Epitaphum in Glaucum. 

 " Non de plebe domus, non avaraj verna catastaj, 

 Sed domini saucto dignus amore puer, 

 Munera cum posset nondum sentire patroni, 



Glaucia libertus jam Melioris erat. 

 Moribus hoc formaique datum — quis blandior illo? 



Aut quis Apollineo pulchrior ore fuil? 

 Immodkis brevis est alas, et rara senectus, 

 Quisquis amas, cupias non placiiisse uimis." 



(Translation.) 

 " Epitaph on Glaucus. 

 " Nor basely born, nor boflght at mart. 

 But worthy all a Master's love. 

 Freed — but too young to lay to heart 



The boon — or freedom's joys to prove: 

 In him fair form, mild manners meet, 



Apollo's scarce a face more fair : 

 Such gifts foreshow life short and fleet, 

 Ye who love such, for grief prepare." — R. 



I also found the line applied by John Evelyn, 

 in his Diary, under date 1688, to the fate of his 

 " most deare child Richard," who died at the age 

 of six years — a prodigy of beauty and intelli- 

 gence. In short, it seems to have passed into a 

 proverbial application to the premature deaths of 

 early taken and gifted individuals, and is analo- 

 gous to the Greek apothegm, which tells us that 

 " whom the gods love die young." 



A. B. Rowan, D.D. 



Belmont. 



Alexander, Brother of Simon Lord Lovat (2°'^ S. 

 v. 335.; vi. 176.) — I thank Ca:DO Illcd much 

 for his very interesting communication. The au- 

 thority for Alexander Fraser, the elder brother of 

 Simon Lord Lovat having killed a man and lied 



